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Arthur Collins - Suicide Blues

by: Arthur Collins

Publication date: 1919-08-15
Topics: 78rpm, oldtime
Item Size: 34.3M

Maybe the first of a number of songs with this title. An unhappy man lists particularly horrible ways of doing away with himself (bathing in carbolic acid, eating Paris green), but it's OK, because it's only a joke - I think. Recorded in August of 1919. Despite the "blues" in the title, this song looks backward toward the already-dying minstrel tradition rather than ahead to the blues of the 1920s. From 78rpm disk.

Addeddate: 2006-11-25 01:32:47
Boxid: OL100020016
Identifier: Arthur_Collins-Suicide_Blues
Run time: 3:15
Source: Original 78rpm disk digitized by old78collector
Year: 1919